A woman who teamed up with her mum to fleece a credit union of £61,000 has failed in a legal bid to have her jail sentence cut.

Andrea Rodden (44) was given 27 months in August 2018 whilst her mother received a 15-month sentence for the scam they pulled at the financial club in Hamilton.

The court heard that the pair, who also come from Hamilton, used a dead pensioner’s details for a £6000 loan. Rodden also stole £31,000 from children’s savings at the Whitehill Hillhouse Earnock Burnbank union. The crimes took place between 2007 and 2013.

At the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh, lawyers for Rodden argued her sentence was too harsh.